How to establish permanent wildflower plantings
Grow wildflowers from seed or plug plants and avoid these common mistakes
You don’t need a meadow to grow wildflowers, I dot them in our garden borders among cultivated plants. By their nature, most wildflowers are easy plants - they grow where they grow because they like and evolved in exactly those conditions. Once established, they tend to look after themselves but establishing wildflowers in the first place isn’t always straightforward. Here I’ll share some tips and tricks I’ve learnt over the years for starting wildflowers in your garden.